Thread: Hindenburg. Stick and Tissue build.
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Old 10-04-2019, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnGay View Post
Going to use sewing thread for the tension wires and see how it holds up.
That brings to mind a little Nieuport 11 kit by Comet which I "spiffed up" in Macon, Georgia, in the 1970s by among other things using thread for the structural rigging inside the fuselage; even in that little thing the humidity changes between summer and the winter furnace caused what I'll call "tissue issues".

(it ended up too heavy to fly right but I was experimenting with detailing, those kits were so economical in those days that one could afford to sacrifice a couple to experiments)
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